Author Archives: Harold Abend
State Football Players of the Week
With Cal-Hi Sports Executive Editor Mark Tennis in Europe and covering the De La Salle game from London this week, we had to dig deeper to select this week’s six State Football Players of the Week. It turns out after we reached out to our friends and reliable media sources in both Northern and Southern […]
State Football Players of the Week
A few of this week’s six State football Players of the Week, and one player from a losing team, came close to cracking the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book but none made the grade. Besides tracking potential entries for the record book, the second goal of this feature is to uncover hidden talent that normally […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week’s six State Football Players of the Week didn’t give us any entries to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we did uncover some diamonds in the rough and some exceptional talent that garners statewide recognition to go with local kudos. This […]
Girls of Summer: Player Rankings
For the 20th time since 2005, here’s a chart of the top players from California high school girls basketball viewed by the Girls of Summer Caravan during all events attended in person starting in June and extending into August. This time, it’s a list with 180 names. It starts with the only two players to...
State Football Players of the Week
One award winner was close to making the grade, but we didn’t have any entries this week to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the purposes of this feature, but we did satisfy the other object of the feature and that is to uncover some talent that in most […]
State Football Players of the Week
Yes, it the same six players as before — Offense, Defense & Special Teams/Multi-Purpose from Northern & Southern California — but we’re just calling those six our state players of the week instead of NorCal/SoCal. We kick off the first week of the 2024 season with six very deserving honorees, but as is always the […]
Second Half Surge For No. 1 Mater Dei
In the first game of the season on Thursday for state No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana and the first game for new head coach Raul Lara, No. 3 Centennial (Corona) only trailed 22-17 at halftime. Then the vaunted MD defense took over in the second half in a 42-25 win. Not having top […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
Our next to last stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams covers the CIF Central Coast Section. It’s been the home of the top NorCal team for 2021, 2022 & 2023 from Serra (San Mateo). The Padres lost a tremendous senior class, which is shown by more players on this team...
Preseason NCS East Bay FB Team
Continuing to bounce around the state, our next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California is the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section. This team also includes players from the very small CIF Oakland Section mixed in. Pittsburg and De La Salle both have the...
